improve the students’ writing proficiency through Career exploration technique

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A.Background

In globalization and era information English was one of the
foreign languages taught in school considered as the important one in grasping
knowledge, science, and technology. Most of the books, mass media and articles
use English. Therefore, the student read books in English to increase their
knowledge and to be more aware of technology development. The English language
consists of four skills listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The four
language skills were supported by grammar and vocabulary. Those skills were
related each other so it should be taught as effective as possible.

The four English language skills were important improved.
But this research focused in improvingwriting skills, because the researcher
had done P2K and observation at SMA Muhammadiyah 7 Makassar. The researcher saw
many students still poor and weak in writing skills. So the researcher took
writing as the research. Writing as one of the English language skills has an
important role not only in a formal situation, but also in informal one.
Sometimes people cannot verbalize their opinions, ideas or feeling orally, but
they can express them through writing. People may write in lecture, seminar, or
in private study and also complete their study. People, especially who live in
different regions in time and space, should write to transmit their ideas to
other people. The other reason why people need to write is that writing can
help to sort out and organize the writer random thought, clarify, what they
think, develop their idea to make other people understand easily. Writing can
be a process of self discovery about who we are and what we think.

The technique of teaching was necessary to develop the
students’ skills especially in improving the students’ writing proficiency.
Because the technique of teaching influenced the students’ success, so the
teacher of English should select the suitable method or technique to teach the
students.

One of effectives technique that was used by the teacher was
Career Exploration Technique where it was affords as a systematic procedure by
the teacher could guide the students to write. Career exploration is an
activity, guide, and counseling to assist students make decisions about
choosing their future professions, and how to get jobs in their chosen fields
(Kelly, 2010). The teacher could guide students to express and write down their
ideas in choosing a job in the future.

Based on the information above, the researcher conducted a
research to find out whether the Career exploration technique was effective to
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